High Quality
Open the downloaded document, and select print from the file menu (PDF reader required).
de Kluyver -Drucker Themes1
Peter Drucker on Management:Three Themes
Cornelis A. “Kees” de Kluyver
Masatoshi Ito Professor ofManagementPeter F. Drucker and MasatoshiIto Graduate School ofManagementClaremont Graduate UniversityClaremont CA 91711October 2009
de Kluyver -Drucker Themes2
About Peter F. Drucker
Born in Vienna on November 19, 1909
Ph.D in law from Frankfurt University in 1931
Became senior editor at the
Frankfurter General- Anzeiger
when he was just 21
Marrried Doris Schmitz in London in 1937
Moved to the U.S. shortly thereafter; became professorat Sarah Lawrence and Bennington colleges and a
correspondent for the Financial Times.
In 1950, Drucker began a twenty-one year stint as a
professor at the Graduate Business School of New
York University. He established himself as a consultantto major corporations, with early clients including
General Motors and Sears Roebuck.
In 1971, Drucker moved to Claremont GraduateUniversity in Claremont, California where he would
serve as professor of social sciences and management
for over 30 years.
de Kluyver -Drucker Themes3
About Peter F. Drucker
Well before his passing in 2005, Drucker was alreadywidely recognized as the most important thinker of his
time on how organizations ought to be managed. He
influenced leaders and organizations as diverse as
Google, General Electric, the Girl Scouts, and the
United Farm Workers.
Drucker‟s contributions extend well beyond business –
he called himself a "social ecologist": a close observer
of the way humans are organized across all sectors -in
business, but also in government and in the nonprofit
world.
Drucker wrote 39 books and hundreds of articles in
publications from The Wall Street Journal and theEconomist to Harper's Magazine and Harvard Business
Review.
Add a Comment